Trevor Turk

USA defeats Honduras 2-1 in World Cup Qualifier

Carlos Bocanegra scored on a diving header off Landon Donovan's corner kick in the 68th minute, and the United States rallied to beat Honduras 2-1... Read more

Automated Code Quality Checking In Ruby And Rails - RailsConf

Code quality tools are starting to emerge more and more in the Ruby community. Tools like Flog, Heckle, Reek, Roodi, Saikuro and Simian are all... Read more

RailsConf 2008 Overview

ActiveORM: ORM Agnosticism in Rails 3.0 - RailsConf

Lori will be speaking about the implementation of ORM agnosticism in Rails called ActiveORM and how it effects developers, plugin developers, and... Read more

Integrating Flex and Rails with RubyAMF - RailsConf

One of the coolest things about Rails, besides the obvious, is that you get a multi-format client almost for free. RubyAMF is a Rails plug-in that... Read more

Rails in the Large:How We're Developing the Largest Rails Project in the World - RailsConf

While others have been debating whether Rails can scale to enterprise levels, we’ve been demonstrating it. ThoughtWorks is running one of the... Read more

HTTP's Best-Kept Secret: Caching - RailsConf

Did you know that nearly one-third of the HTTP specification, RFC 2616, is dedicated to caching? Or that the Cache constraint is so fundamental to... Read more

Giving Rails the Big 'F': Surviving Facebook Integration Unscarred - RailsConf

“If you want a vision of the [Facebook], imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.”—George Orwell Sooner or later, someone will ask you... Read more

And the Greatest of These Is ... Rack Support - RailsConf

Over the past year, Rails has gradually become a better, more connected citizen within the Ruby web space. The Merb merger is one part of that, but... Read more

David Heinemeier Hansson - RailsConf Keynote

Building a Video Portal in Rails - Or How the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Started Streaming - RailsConf

A team of Rails developers, designers, and an enterprising media and licensing company embarked on a challenge: How to put every video in the 4Kids... Read more

Are You Taking Things Too Far? - RailsConf

Sometimes as developers it can be a little too easy to lose sight of the big picture sometimes, we can get carried away with following the... Read more

Build an App, Start a Movement - RailsConf

This talk walks through how we developed TweetCongress.org including: - Finding APIs and free data sources online - Building a Twitter mashup... Read more

RailsConf 2007 Overview

Happening May 17-20, 2007 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon, RailsConf is *the* official event for the growing Rails community.... Read more

Advanced Performance Optimization of Rails Applications - RailsConf

In this session Alexander covers steps of performance improvement process necessary to make real-world production Rails application fast and keep... Read more

IronRuby on Rails - RailsConf

IronRuby actively tracks how well it runs Rails, Merb, Sinatra, and a bunch of other Ruby frameworks. This talk will show real Rails apps running... Read more

Heroku: Guided Tour and Q & A - RailsConf

Back by popular request, several Heroku team members will be on hand to walk you through the latest and greatest features of the Heroku platform... Read more

Confessions of a PackRat - RailsConf

When the Facebook game PackRat was released in early 2008, it quickly took off, and now serves over 12 million page views a day. This session will... Read more

Five Musical Patterns for Programmers - RailsConf

Music and software have more in common than some might think. They are both creative endeavors, both follow certain rules and structures, and both... Read more

Art of the Ruby Proxy for Scale, Performance, and Monitoring - RailsConf

In this session we will first walk through the basics of event-driven architectures and high-performance network programming in Ruby using the... Read more

Rails3: Step Off of the Golden Path - RailsConf

Back in December 2008, the Rails and Merb core teams surprised everybody by deciding to merge their teams and focus their energy on a common... Read more

Integrating SMS Messaging with your Rails Application - RailsConf

These days, almost everyone has a cell phone. SMS text messaging is the oldest, most reliable means to communicate with a wide range of mobile... Read more

Orchestrating the Cloud - RailsConf

Constraints are everywhere when working with high throughput tools, be they video encoding, indexing, image processing, parsing or complex... Read more

Call into your Ruby code! Writing voice-enabled apps in Ruby with Adhearsion - RailsConf

Adhearsion is an open-source telephony development framework with which Rails developers can easily integrate phone-related features into their web... Read more

Rube Goldberg Contraptions, Building Scalable Decoupled Web Apps and Infrastructure with Ruby - RailsConf

As a web app grows to handle more features and more load, inevitably the app cannot handle it all. You need to build a decoupled scalable... Read more